Includes bibliographical references and index.

PART ONE: OVERVIEWS
Introduction - William Outhwaite
The Social Sciences since World War II - Peter Manicas
The Rise and Fall of Scientism
Interdisciplinary Approaches in Social Science Research - Julie Thompson Klein
PART TWO: CASES, COMPARISONS AND THEORY
Introduction - William Outhwaite
Ethnography - Jon Mitchell
Comparative Methods - Charles C Ragin
Historicity and Sociohistorical Research - John R Hall
Case Study - Jennifer Platt
PART THREE: QUALIFICATION AND EXPERIMENT
Introduction - Stephen Turner
Statistical Models for Causation - David Freedman
Fighting to Understand the World Causally - Leslie Hayduk and Hannah Pazderka-Robinson
Three Battles Connected to the Causal Implications of Structural Equation Models
Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Designs in Behavioral Research - Sandra Schneider
On Context, Crud and Convergence
Theory and Experimentation in Social Sciences - Murray Webster Jr and Jane Sell
The Treatment of Missing Data - David Howell
Modeling Selection Effects - Thad Dunning and David Freedman
Methods for Census 2000 and Statistical Adjustments - David Freedman and Ken Wachter
Quantitative History - Margo Anderson
PART FOUR: RATIONALITY, COMPLEXITY, COLLECTIVITY
Introduction - William Outhwaite
Rational Choice Theory - Donald P Green and Justin Fox
Rationality and Rationalist Approaches in the Social Sciences - David Henderson
Individual and Collective Agency - Thomas Schwinn
Simulating Complexity - R Keith Sawyer
Evolutionary Approaches in the Social Sciences - Maureen O'Malley
PART FIVE: INTERPRETATION, CRITIQUE AND POSTMODERNITY
Introduction - William Outhwaite
Understanding and Interpretation - Hans-Herbert Kögler
New Controversies in Phenomenology - Mark J Smith and Piya Pangsapa
Between Ethnography and Discourse
Liberal Humanism and the European Critical Tradition - Doug Kellner and Tyson Lewis
Grounded Theory - Adele Clarke
Critiques, Debates and Situational Analysis
Does Postmodernism Make You Mad? Or, Did You Flunk Statistics? - Ben Agger
PART SIX: DISCOURSE CONSTRUCTION
Introduction - Stephen Turner
Social Construction and Research Methodology - Ken Gergen and Mary Gergen
Rhetorics of Social Science - Ricca Edmondson
Sociality in Writing and Inquiry
Discourse Analysis - Michael Lynch
PART SEVEN: EVALUATION, ENGAGEMENT, AND COLLABRATIVE RESEARCH
Introduction - Stephen Turner
Evaluation Research - Michael Scriven
Feminist Methodology - Susan Hekman
Feminist Methodology and Its Discontents - Nancy Naples
Community Based Research - Michael Root
Qualitative Methodology (Including Focus Groups) - Norman Denzin and Kathryn E Ryan
Making a Mess with Method - John Law